>> It looks like Donald Trump has finally come to terms with the fact that he is not going to
be serving a second term as president. He has, in fact lost the general election.
And so he's looking for his next grift. What can I do? I mean, I can't
funnel taxpayer money to my private businesses anymore.
So can I get back to doing what I was doing before? Can I do the Apprentice again? And so
some new reporting by the Daily Beast indicates that he's already asking those questions.
And the thing that drives me nuts is that the Apprentice creator,
Mark Burnett, is, based on these statements
by people who know about the conversations talking to the Daily Beast, he wants to do it.
Burnett's like yeah, this is a good opportunity to make some money. And I don't know if you guys
watched the Apprentice. I didn't when it was airing. After Trump got elected,
I watched an episode or two with one of my friends. And I was like, my God, I kind of
get it now because Trump had years and years and years of incredibly positive PR through this show.
Where he's presented as this confident, savvy businessman, who's in charge, he's firing
bad employees who aren't getting it done. That's how he presented himself. So people, it didn't
matter that he went bankrupt six times. The years of programming people into thinking that Donald
Trump was something that he actually wasn't was powerful and worked to his advantage in 2016.
>> Yeah, I watched the Apprentice for years. And I'll say though,
even back then, the one thing I did not like about the show was him. He ruined the show.
>> It was funny. I enjoyed the show in spite of him and his involvement in it.
Because there'd be moments where you would just wonder, why did they get rid of this person?
He would fire somebody who definitely did not deserve to be fired, and then they were off the
show. And you realize of course, it's all for television, the guy's a showman. And of course,
he wants to be back on television. My question is though, what network wants to hold the show?
I mean, I guess NBC, that's their show, do they really want to do this? Is that going
to look good on them? I feel like even for them, even for the money that they definitely
would make doing this, cuz people will watch it or would watch it, I think it's not good.
I think even there that they'll draw the line at this,
cuz they know it's not gonna look good on them. >> I think NBC might draw the line, and that's
still a might, I don't know. But yeah, I do think that there's a network that will pick this up.
At the end of the day it's about making money, that's it.
>> I'm trying to think of what network. I mean, I don't wanna just-
>> Yeah. >>
Can you imagine? >> Or Fox Television,
I mean, I know they're different than Fox News. But I mean, they do out there show sometimes.
Those game shows that, remember those truth game shows back in the day? I
feel like those were always carried on Fox. I don't know. There's like the wild game shows.
>> Those were great by the way. >> There were incredible.
>> I loved those dating game shows, the super cheesy ones.
I don't even remember which ones, I can't think of a specific one,
but I remember enjoying them. And they were always midday shows, midday, it's some dating game show.
>> The old, old ones, like Love Connection and- >> Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's what I was thinking about. >> The Dating Game was way,
way back, but there were some after that.
The good ones were Blind Date, that was the wheelhouse of I was 20 years old, I think,
maybe 25 when Blind Date was happening. It would be on and it would be worth it
just for it to be on. It was lovely. >> Yeah, what kind of programming
do they have in Canada?
Is it a little more, I don't know? I'm curious. >> It's largely American programming,
to be honest with you. >> Really?
>> A lot of America programming, I mean, we have our own shows. We also have our
own versions of certain American shows, like there's a Canadian Family Feud now,
and other game shows like that, there's a Canadian version.
>> What's the difference? >> It's different hosts and
it's Canadian people on instead of American. >> They're just nicer, there's no feuding.
>> Probably yeah, it's probably a little nicer. >> It's Family Agreement not Family Feud.
>> Family discussion. >> Family discussion, yes.
>> Family discussion. >> I feel like even Canadians
would not watch the Apprentice now.
I mean, they did back then, I did back then. But yeah, I don't, yeah, this would make money,
but I'm not sure who would actually hold the show. >> There is, I don't know, I mean, look,
I'll obviously watch two episodes of it, so I could be wrong.
But from the two episodes I watched, I just felt like
they would have the camera on Trump for a sentence at a time, and then they would cut
away and then go back. He could never, it seems like he had a lot difficulty.
>> For sure. >> Cuz it's a written show obviously, right?
>> So he just had difficulty with his lines and they're like, this guy.
>> So a lot of editing work required for that show. But it was just, I don't know,
I felt like it was super cheesy but for a big audience, I can see its appeal, right?
And again, it's just super positive PR, this savvy competent, business man.
>> Yeah, it always made him seem like he was this brilliant guy, this brilliant businessman.
>> And basically it was like the voice of God who would occasionally come into the show, talk to the
contestants, go back and then at the end of the show, he would fire somebody.
And they gave this impression that he was in control, he knew exactly what
was going on. And then while the show was going on, I remember there were
various feuds going on behind the scenes. One of his close advisers who was on the
show quite a bit, there, apparently, was some beef between him and Trump.
So there was always behind the scenes,
kind of you got these little inclinations that Trump wasn't a great person. Even
it wasn't already aware while you're watching, or it wasn't clear while you're watching the
show that he was a bad person, but definitely. I mean, this is the kind of thing where I was hoping
he would float away and we'd never see him again but he's definitely gonna be involved somehow.
And now he has a PAC. I figured he'd be using that PAC to fly around the country,
pretend he's running for president in 2024 to be able to give these grandiose speeches. But
ultimately, I mean, I guess this is a different way to keep your name in the headlines.
>> It's weird- >> Yeah, definitely.
>> Yeah, we talked about how with the Apprentice put him to this point where it'll seem like he's
this competent person. It set him up to run for president under this veneer of
success. But in reality, this was written for him, this was tailor made from him.
He thought he could go into the presidency and it'd be like the Apprentice. I can sit
in the big chair, sit at the Oval Office and just say, you're fired and just say, yeah,
go do that. And then they'll listen to me, because I'm the President, he bought into the game.
But he was there watching himself be incompetent, to watch him probably have to go through multiple
lines over and over again. Or, no Donald, don't say that part because you sound like an A-hole.
All these things that had probably happened behind the scenes that again, we've heard stories about
things that were recorded that we never got a chance to hear.
But he thought it was gonna be just simple. Now he's like, man,
that was a tough four years of my life of reality. I'll just go back to fantasy.
This is his new plan. >> Yeah